Funding period

April 2016 – March 2020

Description

Subtropical and subpolar oceanic gyre boundaries are characterized by confluent western boundary currents and convergence in the adjacent shelf and slope waters. Together, they lead to large net export of shelf waters to the deep ocean, and complex, bidirectional shelf-deep ocean exchange, in response to strong forcing typical of midlatitude western ocean margins. Shelf-deep ocean exchange processes at such dynamic sites remain poorly understood, due in part to the technical challenge of resolving broad ranges of relevant spatial and temporal scales. This project will deploy fixed, mobile, and remote observational platforms in combination with idealized and realistic numerical simulations to investigate exchange processes near Cape Hatteras. The sampling array will provide unprecedented temporal and spatial resolution in a region of large episodic export and exchange.

“From Top To Bottom: An Investigation of Wintertime Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction in the Vicinity of the Gulf Stream in January 2018,” by J. Zambon at the 2018 Mid-Atlantic Bight Physical Oceanography and Meteorology Meeting.

Ocean Sciences Meeting 2018, hosted by the American Geophysical Union, the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, and The Oceanography Society. Portland, OR, USA. Presentations by this project’s researchers: